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What it doesWhozat is a semantic search engine for people finding that allows you to find information on everyday people that you wouldn't necessarily find with other engines. Whozat scours a number of sources including search engines like Google, as well as social and professional networks. The engine is also interactive in the sense that [...]

What it doesFeedzz is a social news aggregator site available in both Spanish and English. Entering the site, one encounters a list of feeds under a number of categories which include: technology, music, health, sports and many more. Currently, they claim that the feeds are ranked according to their popularity, which is gauged through other [...]

People, places, events; our browsers (and other machines) should be able to recognize these things as easily as you and I can. That’s the promise of the semantic web. But users are not the ones who will make the semantic web work. Microformats extend existing XHTML tags to put human-readable information into machine-parsable form (<span class="location">Argent Hotel, San Fran

People, places, events; our browsers (and other machines) should be able to recognize these things as easily as you and I can. That’s the promise of the semantic web. But users are not the ones who will make the semantic web work. Microformats extend existing XHTML tags to put human-readable information into machine-parsable form (<span class="location">Argent Hotel, San Fran

What it doesFaviki is a newly launched social bookmarking site that takes advantage of Wikipedia's semantic tagging capabilities. Unlike other social bookmarking sites, the user doesn't have to create an obscure or wrong tag, Faviki will actually suggest a tag for you based upon Wikipedia terms. Which makes sense, so that you don't have to [...]

What it doesTheRarestWords is an interesting Russian-developed project that seems to have the goal of optimizing search engine results by pulling out the rarest words on any given site. Basically, TheRarestWords bot scours the internet, examines words on URLs and then lists off the rarest words found on each site. The thinking behind this appears [...]

Hakia is focused on bringing quality results via its semantic search technology. Save Time and Effort: Quality results eliminate the time and effort required to assess the credibility, freshness, and relevancy of the search results. Get Correct Information: Credibility-stamped results ensure that the information you found is the best available out there. It prevents from the consequences [...]

  Semantic search engine optimization is a new term in SEO community. More people asking about it and conserned if they should change in their promotional strategies.   Semantic search is a natural development of search engines to provide better search results. Nothing new but web developers use new term to point that search engines became more [...]

The recent changes at Google SERPs have brought a focus on LSI: Latent Semantic Indexing among the many seo professionals and business owners. It is an approach to understanding keywords in the context of the words on the entire webpage.In addition to relying on keywords on a web page, Google now applies LSI technology to identify the words that has relevancy to one another. For example, LSI can discover relevancy between the words ‘Iraq’, ‘George Bush’ and ‘Saddam Hussein’ for the search term ‘iraq war’.For LSI, Context is the King. Next time, when you optimize a page, make sure that you focus on relevancy and context.

Openings for Sr.JAVA Developers in SEMANTIC SPACE TECHNOLOGIES About SemanticSpace: SemanticSpace is a leading, global software solutions company with track record of providing enterprise software products, project services and quality assurance services to Fortune 500 companies, such as Countrywide Home Loans, a global leader in mortgage industry. SemanticSpace is an ISO 9001:2000 certified

As Web 2.0 applications continue to dominate user’s time and investments in 2008, I’ve been doing some reading about Web 3.0 and what it holds in store for the future of web development and it seems there will be four very important milestones reached. Portable Web - Traditional websites are designed with the intention of being [...]

Μια νέα γενιά search engines είναι το μελλοντικό πεδίο αντιπαραθέσεων των μεγάλων του internet αφού η yahoo είναι πρόθυμη να δώσει βάρος στην ανάπτυξη του semantic web. Με απλά λόγια θα έχουμε πιο εξελιγμένες search engines που θα προσαρμόζουν τα αποτελέσματα μιας αναζήτησης, κατά το δοκούν! Λόγου χάρη όταν θα κάνεις αναζήτηση για την επανάσταση του 1821, θα σου βγάζει και τον Kαραϊσκάκη και την Αλαμάνα και την Αγία Λάβρα χρησιμοποιώντας έξυπνες τεχνικές που θα ε

Yahoo’s embrace of all things open continues today - expect an announcement in an hour or so that they are expanding their Open Search Platform that we wrote about last month. In that previous announcement, Yahoo talked about their plans to allow third parties to alter and enhance search results with structured data that may be useful to users. Today, they’ll give more details on the developer platform and will announce support for a number of semantic web standards.What does all this mean? It means we can expect the web to get itself organized, in a hurry. At stake is a significant amount of traffic from Yahoo search, and anyone else that may choose to build applications on top of this data.Yahoo’s support for semantic web standards like RDF and microformats is exactly the incentive

1. The influence of semantic indexing on your search engine rankings Semantic indexing is getting more and more important to search engines. What exactly is semantic indexing and how does it influence your search engine rankings? What is semantic indexing? Semantic indexing means that search engines try to associate certain terms with concepts when indexing web pages. [...]

One thing that I have learned in over a decade developing web sites is that the ‘Net is continually changing, and to keep up you need to change with it. One of the more recent developments in web design is the use of CSS and semantic markup. CSS and semantic web design has several benefits: [...]

Review "…a useful addition to a Semantic Web library." (www.freepint.com, 5th October 2006) Book Description The Semantic Web combines the descriptive languages RDF (Resource Description Framework) and OWL (Web Ontology Language), with the data-centric, customizable XML (eXtensible Mark-up Language) to provide descriptions of the content of Web documents. These machine-interpretable

Book Description The Semantic Web is an idea of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee that the Web as a whole can be made more intelligent and perhaps even intuitive about how to serve a users needs. Although search engines index much of the Web's content, they have little ability to select the pages that a user really wants or needs. Berners-Lee foresees a number of ways in which developers

Indexing has always been considered a highly targeted science. Enter a search query into Google search and the pages that are displayed are generally optimized towards that exact word or term. However, in their continual battle to server the most relevant but most natural pages with genuinely useful information Google has injected latent semantic indexing (LSI) into its algorithms.LSI is a unique indexing method that potentially takes Google search one step closer to becoming human in its way of thinking. If we were to manually search through web pages to find information related to a given search term we would be likely to generate our own results based on the theme of the site, rather than whether a word exists or doesn't exist on the page.The extremely rigid form of "keyword indexing" also meant that black hat SEO techniques were easier to implement. Search engines could be manipulated into ranking a site highly by using set formula. Originally, cramming a page with a particular ke

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My dad just sent me a cool article from this week’s NYT that gave a layman’s intro to Semantic web as Web 3. Some thoughts (as i hug my Sunday AM coffee and stare out over the pacific waves) As semantic web / web3.0 progresses, will it further push people to one-box search as the core interface for the web? What “relationships” will drive symantic web logic- i.e. what will be the “pagerank”-style innovation of web 3.0? More specifically, as with url.com, can the relationships between keyword-result-USER (what i call search social-networking) be a leading innovation? Can we get there? Coffee done…and i look forward to your thoughts!

Latent Semantic Indexing: What Is It? The introduction of latent semantic indexing by Google meant the end for many 'junk' Adsense sites. This article explains why quality unique content is vital for your Adsense success. Duplicate content and template pages are no longer acceptable, and are frequently de-indexed. This excellent guide is a must-read for all Webmasters. 'Latent semantic indexing

Latent Semantic Indexing: What Is It? The introduction of latent semantic indexing by Google means many 'junk' Adsense sites have failed. This article explains why quality unique content is vital for your Adsense success. Duplicate content and template pages are no longer acceptable, and are frequently de-indexed. 'Latent semantic indexing was introduced in an attempt to improve the service

A recent recent NYT article quoted by the Center for Media and Democracy explains how "Terror War Gets New Slogan" : "A new emphasis on reminding the public of the broader, long-term threat to the United States may allow the administration to put into broader perspective the daily mayhem in Iraq and the American casualties" as "global struggle against violent extremism" replaces "global war on terror" .Could this also mean the "last throes of neocons against World peace" (did Dick dig that one ?) or an end to the "global destruction of the American ideal by warmonger fanatics" ? No way Jose : they're talking about "violent extremism", which is so much unlike White House extremism. When a "violent extremist" performs torture, he is attacking civilization. When a White House extremist makes torture legal, he is protecting the nation.It took them four years to realize the solution was "more diplomatic, more economic, more political than it is military" ? It won't take lon

Unfortunately, Google has to employ measures like LSI to prevent search engine spamming. This isn't a new part of their algorithm or some revolutionary new way they rank sites. LSI is simply a tool for detecting spam documents. The patent states that right at the beginning, "Detecting spam documents in ...

From time to time I go on to the British Computer Society (BCS) as I am a Professional Member of the Society. I haven't noticed it before, but they have "semanticised", they have RDF Descriptions for every article page. When you go to a page on the BCS Website look for ...

The Linking Open Data Community had some awesome news today, Drupal version 7 will run on an entirely RDF base, will expose that RDF and be able to import RDF. This is awesome news, but it gets even better! Drupal 7 will be Linked Data enhanced too! . This has been ...

I might consider doing a longer post later, but I wanted to highlight this to all my fellow SemWebbers. The Semantic Web (and/or "Data Web" and/or "Web 3.0") is seeing increasing coverage in the media (with varying amounts of accuracy): "Web 3.0 is all about Rank and Recommendation" by Jemima Kiss ...

"The Semantic Web and Anglicanism" by Daniel Lewis My version of "The World Wide Web and the 'Web of Life'" by Tim Berners-Lee I've been considering lately how my beliefs and religious practices have interacted with my work on the Semantic Web and Linked Data... and so this is my version of ...

A couple of weeks ago we recorded the first episode of a new podcast series. The Semantic Web Gang is a panel of Semantic Web experts, gathered by Paul Miller (of Talis) and myself. The Gang consists of: Greg Boutin Mills Davis Tom Heath Alex Iskold Daniel Lewis (me) Thomas Tague It was really good to star on ...

Just read "Twine and Linked Data on the Semantic Web", a blog post by Nova Spivack. He says that Twine has a SPARQL endpoint, it's just not open yet. He also says that it is able to consume Linked Data. This is all good, however, even though it's stated in the Twine ...

The April 2008 Semantic Web Gang Podcast has been released. I enjoyed taking part in this episode, it is a little bit more relaxed than our first episode (mainly because there are less people, and so everybody got their chance to speak about particular topics). Strangely, I sound incredibly camp on ...

The Tribes of the Semantic Web There are actually tribes within the Semantic Web: These include: The Linked Data Purist The Semantic Annotator The Semantics Purist The Semantic Insider Generally this is because they prefer a certain architecture over another, but I am not saying that each is exclusive. There are people in the community which straddle ...

Following my previous post on "The Tribes of the Semantic Web". There is another Semantic Tribe: The RDFization Tribe. The RDFization(or RDFisation to be slightly more English English) Tribe. RDFization is quite a simple term to understand if you think about it, because "isation" means the process of turning into something, ...

As some of you know, I am a member of the ACM and this lovely bit of news was released last week at some point, but I've only just noticed today because it was in the recent ACM MemberNet mailing list email. The Semantic Web Expert Professor Wendy Hall CBE FREng ...

Good news for the Semantic Annotator tribe: RDFa is now a candidate recommendation of the W3C "RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing"... which means that RDFa is ready for the mainstream... and actually... RDFa is already being used Some examples: The London Gazette Digg Various blogs and wikis If you haven't checked out RDFa then ...